“The launching pad for emotional freedom is always yourself.” ― Judith Orloff Have you ever had that experience where things just seem to stop working for you? You wake up one day and you realize that you’ve lost touch with the “flow” of your life. Everything around...

I was one angry child. And, with the support of my family system, my schools and the community we lived in, I learned that there was something very wrong with me for feeling so incredibly angry. So, I learned to be nice. To be happy. To smile a lot. To ignore,...

“By practicing self-awareness and pausing before reacting, we can help create a world with less pain and more love.” ~Lori Deschene It happens to the best of us. We find ourselves in a challenging situation or stressful environment and we get overcome—by an emotion,...

Stress: a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. In my last post, we explored an acronym that is increasingly used to describe life in the 21st Century: VUCA, which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty,...

VUCA is a term that is being tossed around a lot these days. It stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity, and it sums up quite well the nature of life in 2017 Wherever we look today, we’re faced with VUCA. At work. Culturally. Politically. Our...